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The power of Mememagic

I know most of you will not believe the following lines or probably will not give value to these words, but I’m gonna write anyway…

Some years ago I was heavily interested in memetics (Richard Dawkins) and in its contribution to the magickal sphere. This was more or less six or seven years ago, at the same time the interest of children on cell phones was growing and I happened to watch a program in the TV regarding this… I-phones didn’t even exist by the time. Then I thought: man, if I was a company owner, I would then try to make this market grow even more by associating toons and disneys to cellphones. And then, the stupid boy I was by the time (some people think I still own this position, including myself) decided to contact as many cell phone factories as I could to “suggest” them to materialize this idea and hoping they would maybe “share” some profit with me… how stupid. But I overcomed this mistake already, don’t worry. I suggested them to have pucca cases, and mickey mouse cases, and bugs bunny cases and so on…

The point is, I saw this materialized in the last four years in a massive ridiculous variety of cases, one more ridiculous than the other, to a point it is only comparable to the Tamagotchi effect. I don’t know about you in Europe and US, but Tamagotchi was a plague in Brazil during the end of the 90’s.

And, as you may guess, I incredibly earned US$ 0,00 with this all ! ! ! Why people focus in so stupidly cute things??? Nevermind, I just wanted to call your attention, ladies and gentleman, to the power of meme, and maybe to engage with you in a project of magically using memes for a better World. I guess despite widely theoretically accepted that memes have a power to an extent, it was never fully tried outside marketing agendas.

What about memes to enhance social affairs? Commonwealth memes, huh?

Enlistment open, right here, at Kia… please, suggest topics. Maybe we can find a most voted topic and then magickally work it. Remember Fotamecus.

10 thoughts on “The power of Mememagic”

I have so far made very minimal amounts of money with ‘meme magic’. Also only in the realm of affiliate marketing, and social media marketing (I was also already in this field for 5 years).

What has helped me more so is exposure to discordianism and guerilla marketing.

I think if people are going to take the media magic further online they are going to need the web based tools to do so. There are virtually no free meme trackers that work proficiently for blogs nor social networks. The alternative is either very expensive purchased services or concocting the entire thing yourself from ground up.

If anyone has any experience with machine learning, programming in general, or social networks I can play with where I don’t break TOS by botting them up and would like to help put some tools together I would be highly interested.

Actually, nothing so unbelievable in your post. I’m surprised you actually bothered to write to companies, but I’m not surprised you got no credit for the ideas.

As for memetics, I’ve definitely incorporated memetic thinking into my understanding of entities. It is interesting to observe memetic organisms that spread through human hosts, sometimes at the hosts expense, sometimes giving some form of reward, sometimes, like an addictive drug, a mixture of the two.

I think we are living in a world run by the tyranny of memes. I don’t mean harmless internet memes here, I mean the ruling memeplexes of human civilisations, all of them authoritarian to some degree or another.

I’m all for using magick to create and spread memes that counter tyranny and fear and spread freedom and love…

But I mean, also maybe aiming to spread memes to help increasing the acceptance of the magickal thinking paradigm. Do you believe we can interfere with the Noosphere by means of well spread memes?

I was initially thinking of this project to enhance civility like t-shirts and stickers saying “The World is already full of shit. Please, collect your dog’s dung” or “Save home heating, hug your wife” or even “Are you the Consumer or the Consumed?” and “Move on, fat ass!” but then I though: what if this could help us shattering the Procrustean positivistic paradigm that desolates us since the 19th Century? I believe in the life-change power of Magickal Thinking because it happened and keeps happening to me, but sometimes I feel infected with skeptic and useless memes from other people regarding magick and life as a whole when I happen to get no result…

I just thought of maybe trying something bigger, boundless, bringing about Kether to Malkuth, clashing worlds, but in an objective way so other people witness it and change their minds about magickal thinking.

I realized kiabot related my meme post to a much older post from someone else where it was discussed that maybe magicians rule the world, etc. I believe the persons who do so are magicians indeed (reality rulers/enforcers, rather than world rulers), but if they are really in charge, they seem to do everything at reach to spread an “Unmagickal Thinking”, in a way people tend to believe the most absurd things but they don’t believe magick (sometimes I feel I’m living inside that 2006 movie “Idiocracy”). This is what their power seems to consist of. I mean, there is the Dream Yoga (Lucid Dreaming) and the Yoga of Living (Lucid Living; e.g. applying the rules of Lucid Dreaming to awake life [and are we awake at all?]), but this is subjective – I can feel it and perceive its effects but other people won’t necessarily feel or perceive it. Maybe can we influence Consensus Reality? And How? The only way I can think of is by means of convincing others that magick works, and it seems to me memes are the best option.

Well as far as memes to spread magickal thinking, in many ways we can see currents like Thelema, Discordianism, Chaos magic and even neo-pagan movements, as just that. Memes that have helped spread magical thinking to people that might not otherwise have embraced it.

I think Grant Morrisons “Invisibles” comics maybe another meme that has helped this. Even if technically Alan Moore’s “Promethea” series is a better magical comic.

I also think the #ethersec meme in the Anonymous movement has a lot of potential.

And dare I say that KIA itself could prove such a meme? Or are we mostly attracting the converted? Not that it would matter if it were the latter…

I think collaborative memes will likely prove the most successful. Lets see what memes emerge from our interactions!

I like the idea of spreading memes. I definitely agree with @anton that #ethersec has a potential and I regret that our video still can’t get made. Ugh On the other hand we are getting more good ideas of what we can put in it. It will get made eventually.

I think that focusing on the individual as a fundamental unit of society and the importance of both serving each other has a lot to do with magickal thinking. Oppression of individual present everywhere often gets masked under attitude that individualism equals ego and therefore needs to be undermined. I see the opposite to be true. If society doesn’t priorities good of the individual then the individual has been excluded from the society and can’t contribute to it any more.
Our modern paradigm needs to adjust to validate subjective truths and grant personal freedoms (both closely linked to magickal thinking). I believe we can’t have one without the other.

As regards the means by which memes spread, at least in terms of Internet memes, it seems that humor beats everything else. People love funny things so if we want to spread memes we could have pictures or videos that can be shared online showing our ideas in amusing way but then linking to more serious stuff.

Memes can be shared by other means. Our own behavior can have a lot to do with it. We can share ideas by representing them in our life. That can send a strong message to our environment. We all probably do this anyways but it could be fun to pick particular behavior and focus on it. We could share results and do some magick to empower the meme- maybe creating egregore for it…

You know, I’ve just obtained and read a book by a couple of KIA agents, @fenris23 and @wuff by the name of ‘The Art of Memetics’. It is all about meme magick. I highly recommend it for anyone planning on working this kind of magic. Actually I recommend it for all KIA agents. I’m sure anyone will find benefits in this book…